President Jakaya Kikwete officially inaugurated the hotel in an event also witnessed by several cabinet ministers, company executives and Ambassador Carlton Masters, who is the chairman of Hodi Hotels Management Company and Co-Chairman and President of GoodWorks International. “The Mount Meru Hotel is now as good as new, and, in fact, it’s a better hotel than what it was,” Mr Kikwete said in a speech, adding that the government was looking forward to more hotel investments in Arusha”